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Pacific Rim New Media Summit The political and economic space of the Pacific Rim represents a dynamic context for innovation and creativity. Experimentation in art, science, architecture, engineering, design, literature, theater and music is emerging new forms of cultural production and experience unique to the region. The complex relations and diversity of Pacific Rim nations is exemplified throughout the hybridized communities that comprise Silicon Valley. As the 10th largest city in the United States, San Jose is an important portal on the Eastern edge of the Pacific region, which shares deep historical and cultural connections that range from Latin America, the South Pacific, Southeast Asia to Asia. ZeroOne San Jose: An International Festival of Art on the Edge highlights the Pacific Rim as a central theme by presenting the most significant achievements in art, theory and research from throughout the region. The CADRE Laboratory for New Media at San Jose State University will host a two-day pre-symposium entitled the Pacific Rim New Media Summit co-sponsored by Leonardo. The Summit is intended to explore and build interpretive bridges between institutional, corporate, social and cultural enterprises with an emphasis on the emergence of new media arts programs in 8 areas: Distributed Curatorial; Education; Place, Ground, and Practice; Urbanity and Location; Latin American Ð Pacific/ Asia New Media Initiatives; Residencies/ Symposia/ Directory; Piracy and the Pacific; The Invisible Dynamics of the Pacific Rim and the Bay Area. Each evening there are scheduled events. Monday includes a reception for Summit attendees, premier of Ryjoi IkedaÕs C43 at the California Theatre and Akira HasegawaÕs immersive projection on the new San Jose City Hall rotunda. Tuesday evening is the gala opening for all ISEA2006/ZeroOne San Jose exhibitions and public art works featured in venues throughout the city. The Pacific Rim theme then continues on into the Symposium and Festival with presentations of juried papers, an invited keynote presentation and in exhibitions by artist selected through the ISEA2006 Calls for Participation. From the outset we thought of the Summit as a mechanism to encourage and facilitate international cooperation with an eye to sustainable relationships. Understandably this approach is not without difficulties and, as desired, it has been an emergent process rather than directorial. We view the Summit as a point along a trajectory of building Ôinterpretive bridgesÕ that broaden all of our capacities for creative and intellectual exchange. By focusing the Summit on sustainable ÔoutcomesÕ it is our objective to facilitative cooperative agendas that enable creative production, research and cultural/political practice that challenge current models of cooperation. The Summit is not an attempt to simply become comfortable with one another or to suggest that collaboration is not without controversy, dissent and disagreement. The Summit is also about the collisions of ideology and manifesto. It is about trying to work through the problematics of diversity and difference. On the pragmatic side, what is expected is that each Working Group will have a creative or research project, or program initiative to share. The Working Groups have been asked to identify, shape and pursue a common cause. Documentation of the "outcomes" will serve as the basis for the Summit proceedings. Pacific Rim New Media Summit Working Groups:
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